7. He makes for good nail art:

8. He met Superman one time:

I mean, Superman isn’t real, but NDT did appeared in issue #14 of Action Comics, where he helped Superman find his home planet of Krypton. That’s about as close as most people will ever come to meeting Superman.

9. He also helped put the weight of Thor’s hammer into perspective:

Even though he was incorrect:

“The critical mistake Tyson makes is thinking that Mjolnir was forged of the core of a dying star, when it was actually forged in the core of a dying star,” says Suveen Mathaudhu, a program manager in the materials science division of the U.S. Army Research Office, adjunct materials science professor at NC State and die-hard comics enthusiast. “It’s well documented that the hammer is made out of ‘Uru,’ a fictional metal from Thor’s native realm of Asgard.”

12. He appreciates Beyoncé… for science:

13. He just wants you to be yourself:

“You don’t think about Michael Jordan the basketball player and say, “Oh, he was just like this other player.” No, you don’t even say, “He was like this player plus that player divided by two plus this.” No. He’s Michael Jordan.”